Maintenance is a time consuming activity within software development and it requires a good understanding of the system in question. It is hard or even impossible to understand po...
Detlef Streitferdt, Christian Heller, Ilka Philipp...
Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated patter...
Design patterns are micro architectures that have proved to be reliable, easy-to implement and robust. There is a need in science and industry for recognizing these patterns. We p...
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, developers often reuse existing class libraries or frameworks by invoking their APIs. Those APIs, however...
Design patterns are an established means for building evolvable and maintainable object-oriented software. However, using them requires the developer’s extensive experience. A w...